My Linux History from 1999 to 2024

My Linux History from 1999 to 2024

This piece is an antidote to some Linux Guys on YouTube ranting their prowess on a Virtual Box Terminal. 

While the developers have been working hard,  I was working hard testing their products and was actually using them for productive work while having a busy medical career also teaching undergraduate students. 

I could not convert any of my students to Linux but I never coerced anybody but had a healthy laugh at Window users. 

They are imprisoned and in Apple terms Jail Breakers.

Even though I started with Caldera Linux and moved to Knoppix 3.7 to Knoppix 7.1, my workhorse was Mandriva which became Mageia. 

I think I started with Debian 6 but moved to Debian 11 in 2021, one year after Corona Virus pandemic. 

I was down with Mortal ill effects of the Vaccine (wrote a book on Corona Virus the moment, I recovered from the clinical episode, this Fousi Guy almost killed me) and fortunately 2020 was the rest year for Debian and did not miss much. 

Ever since, I had been  involved with Debian Gnome.

Having said that, I had a brief encounter with Solaris and they in fact send me a DVD free.        

I had a brief encounter with Free BSD (not PC BSD) when the Microsoft Boot record did not let me erase its BIOS record to install Linux. 

If I remember right, I erased Microsoft proprietary hold (after all I bought it, and it is my property not Microsoft's) it through Internet using Live Free BSD session to connect to the Internet. 

Thank YOU Free BSD.

The Laptop has Endless installed in it now.

This is copied from a French article and French do not use capital letters in the middle of a document. I would correct them one word at a time. 

I could never had the opportunity to try Mandrake Gold Edition. 

I was never involved in Ubuntu but I had all its versions from 6.1 (Given free by Mark Shuttleworh with thank YOU).

 

You should understand why have over 400 CD/DVDs in my possession.

My Linux History from 1999 t0 2024

        1999

Linux kernel 2.0.36 / 2.2.6 / 2.2.11 / 2.2.12 / 2.2.13

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mandrake Linux 5.3 (CD)

sha256sum Linux 2.0.36 (Release 5 February 1999)

FreeBSD 3.1 (CD)

sha256sum (Release 15 February 1999)

Red Hat 5.2 (CD) 

French edition sha256sum Linux 2.0.36 (Release 3 may 1999)

Slackware 4.0 install CD live CD internet archives sha256sum Linux 2.2.6 (Release 17 may)

BeOS 4.5 (CD) sha256sum (Release June 1999)

Mandrake Linux 6.1 Gold Pack CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.2.13 (Release 17 September 1999)

Demo Linux 1.1 for Mandrake 6.1 (my first entry)

(CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.11 (Release 4 November 1999)

 

Corel Linux OS 1.0 (my first entry)

(CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.12 (Release 15 November 1999)

Debian 2.1 r4 CD2

source CD1 source CD2 sha256sum System requirements:i386 Linux 2.0.36 (Release 15 December 1999)

2000

Linux kernel 2.2.12 / 2.2.14 / 2.2.19

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mandrake Linux 7.0 Gold Pack CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.2.14 (Release 27 January 2000)

BeOS 5.0 demo (CD) sha256sum (Release march 2000)

Red Hat 6.2 (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.14 (Release 3 April 2000)

Corel Linux OS 1.1 (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.12 (Release 11 may 2000)

Debian 2.2 r0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum System requirements:i386 Linux 2.2.19 (Release 15 august 2000)

FreeBSD 4.2 (CD) sha256sum (Release 21 November 2000)

2001

Linux kernel 2.2.19 / 2.4.2 / 2.4.3

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Red Hat 7.1 (CD)-(my first entry)

Publisher's Edition CD ROM

sha256sum Linux 2.4.2 (Release 16 April 2001)

Mandrake Linux 8.0 (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.4.3 (Release 19 April 2001)

 

Caldera Open Linux 3.1 Workstation CD (my first entry)

source CD unsupported software CD solutions showcase sha256sum Linux 2.4.2 (Release 30 may 2001)

Caldera Open Linux 3.1 Server CD source CD Volume CD software maintenance program sha256sum Linux 2.4.2 (Release 30 may 2001)

Slackware 8.0 install CD2 live CD3 source CD4 extra sha256sum Linux 2.2.19 (Release 1 July 2001)

2002

Linux kernel 2.4.18 / 2.4.19

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

 

Solaris 8 Update 7 

(Solaris 8 2/02) CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum (Release February 2002, end of life march 2012 with Oracle Extended Support)

 

Mandrake Linux 9.0 Power Pack

CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.4.19 (Release 25 September 2002)

 

Red Hat 8.0 CD2 CD3 (my early entry)

sha256sum Linux 2.4.18 (Release 30 September 2002)

2003

Linux kernel 2.4.19 / 2.4.20 / 2.4.21

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Slackware 9.0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum Linux 2.4.20 (Release 19 March 2003, end of life 1 august 2012)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 CD8 CD9

sha256sum Linux 2.4.21 (Release 22 October 2003, end of life 31 October 2010)

 

Fedora 1 CD2 CD3 (my early entry)

sha256sum Linux 2.4.19 (Release 5 November 2003, end of life 20 September 2004)

There is a story behind the 3 Fedora CDs. I got 2 of the 3 CDs from a monk in Sarana road and he did not give me the third. 

I quickly realized he was a homosexual monk and did not see him again but found the 3rd CD from other source (probably got it from Singapore through, one of my agents in Colombo, Ceylon)

2004

Linux kernel 2.4.27 / 2.6.3 / 2.6.8 / 2.6.9

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

 

Mandrake Linux 10.0 

Extra Pack CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.3 (Release 4 March 2004)

 

Knoppix 3.7 (CD) (I found this too)

sha256sum Linux 2.4.27 (Release 16 August 2004)

 

Ubuntu 4.10 Install (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.8 (Release 26 October 2004, end of life 26 April 2006)

Ubuntu 4.10 Live CD (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.8 (Release 26 October 2004, end of life 26 April 2006)

 

Fedora 3 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.9 (Release 8 November 2004, end of life 16 January 2006)

2005

Linux kernel 2.2.20 / 2.4.6 / 2.4.27 / 2.6.8 / 2.6.9 / 2.6.10 / 2.6.11 / 2.6.12

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

CentOS 4.0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum Linux 2.6.9 (Release 9 March 2005, end of life 29 February 2012)

Debian 3.0 r6 DVD

non-us sha256sum System requirements:i386 Linux 2.2.20 + Linux 2.4.6 (Release 2 June 2005)

 

Ubuntu 5.04 Install (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

 

Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Kubuntu 5.04 (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 april 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Mandriva 2005 Power Pack (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.11 (Release 13 April 2005)

Debian 3.1 r0 CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 CD8 CD9 CD10 CD11 CD12 CD13 CD14

sha256sum System requirements:i486 - 64MB memory Linux 2.4.27 + Linux 2.6.8 (Release 6 June 2005, end of life 30 March 2008)

 

Solaris 9 Update 8

(Solaris 9 9/05) (DVD)

sha256sum (Release 27 September 2005, end of life October 2014 with Oracle Extended Support)

Mandriva Free 2006.0 DVD2 DVD3

sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.6.12 (Release 14 November 2005)

Mandriva One 2006.0 (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.6.12 (Release 14 November 2005)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

CentOS 4.0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum Linux 2.6.9 (Release 9 March 2005, end of life 29 February 2012)

Ubuntu 5.04 Install (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006

Kubuntu 5.04 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Mandriva 2005 Power Pack (DVD) (I think I managed to find this DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.11 (Release 13 April 2005)

2006

Linux kernel 2.4.33 / 2.6.15 / 2.6.17 / 2.6.18 / 2.6.19

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

 

Ubuntu 6.06 L.T.S (DVD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er June 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Ubuntu Server 6.06 L.T.S (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er June 2006, end of life 1er June 2011)

Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er June 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Slackware 11.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.4.33 + Linux 2.6.17 (Release 2 October 2006, end of life 1 August 2012)

 

Mandriva One KDE 2007

CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 CD8

sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 256MB memory Linux 2.6.17 (Release 3 October 2006)

 

Mandriva One Gnome 2007

CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 256MB memory Linux 2.6.17 (Release 3 October 2006)

Fedora 6 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.18 (Release 24 October 2006, end of life 7 December 2007)

Knoppix 5.1 (CD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.19 (Release 30 December 2006)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

 

FreeBSD 6.1 (CD)

sha256sum (Release 8 may 2016)

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1st June 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1st June 2006, end of life 1st June 2011)

 

Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1st June 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Fast forward to Debian 6 in 2011 and Mandriva ended and Mageia started.

 

Debian started with both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

2011

Linux kernel 2.6.32 / 2.6.38

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Debian 6.0.0 (my entry into Debian Domain)

DVD 2 DVD 3 DVD 4 DVD 5 DVD 6 DVD 7 DVD 8

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.32 (Release 6 February 2011)

PC BSD 8.2 (DVD)

sha256sum Based on FreeBSD 8.2 (Release 21 February 2011)

Mageia 1 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 1 June 2011, end of life 1 December 2012)

 

Doudou Linux 1.0 (CD) ( I have tried this CD for children)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.32 (Release 15 June 2011)

Haiku (BeOS) R1/Alpha 3 (CD) sha256sum (Release 18 June 2011)

CentOS 6.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.32 (Release 10 July 2011, end of life 30 November 2020)

Mandriva 2011 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 27 August 2011, end of life August 2014)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Debian 6.0.0

DVD 2 DVD 3 DVD 4 DVD 5 DVD 6 DVD 7 DVD 8 sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.32 (Release 6 February 2011)

PC BSD 8.2 (DVD)

sha256sum Based on FreeBSD 8.2 (Release 21 February 2011)

Mageia 1 (DVD) (I tried this but was never impressed)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 1 June 2011, end of life 1 December 2012)

CentOS 6.0 DVD2 sha256sum Linux 2.6.32 (Release 10 July 2011, end of life 30 November 2020)

 

Mandriva 2011 (DVD) (I have tried this)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 27 August 2011, end of life August 2014)

2012

Linux kernel 3.2 / 3.3 / 3.4

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

FreeBSD 9.0 (DVD)

sha256sum (Release 10 January 2012, end of life 31 March 2013)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 April 2012, end of life April 2017)

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 April 2012, end of life April 2017)

Kubuntu 12.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 April 2012, end of life April 2017)

Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 April 2012, end of life April 2017)

   Lubuntu 12.04 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 April 2012, end of life April 2017)

Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 3.2 (Release 23 May 2012, end of life April 2017)

Linux Mint 13 MATE LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 3.2 (Release 23 May 2012, end of life April 2017)

Fedora 17 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 3.3 (Release 29 May 2012, end of life 30 July 2013)

Fedora 17 live (CD) sha256sum Linux 3.3 (Release 29 May 2012, end of life 30 July 2013)

 

Knoppix 7.0.3 (CD) (I have tried this)

sha256sum Linux 3.4 (Release 1 July 2012)

 

Slackware 14.0 (DVD) (I have this but never tried it)

sha256sum Linux 3.2 (Release 28 September 2012)

Haiku (BeOS) R1/Alpha 4.1 (CD) sha256sum (Release 14 November 2012)

2019

Linux kernel 4.18 / 4.19 / 5.1

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mageia 7.0 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 5.1 (Release 1 July 2019, end of life 26 May 2021)

Debian 10.0 

DVD 2 DVD 3 sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

 

Debian 10.0 live Gnome (DVD) (I may have tried this but cannot remember)

 sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Xfce (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXDE (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXQt (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Mageia 7.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.1 (Release 1 July 2019, end of life 26 May 2021)

Debian 10.0 DVD 2 DVD 3 sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Gnome (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Xfce (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXDE (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXQt (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

CentOS 8.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.18 (Release 24 September 2019, end of life 31 May 2029)

2020-Corana Virus pandemic-

I was down by the Vaccine and not the Virus.

Linux kernel 5.4 LTS / 5.6

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Haiku (BeOS) R1/beta 2 (DVD) sha256sum (Release 9 June 2020)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 April 2020, end of life April 2025)

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 April 2020, end of life April 2025)

Kubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 April 2020, end of life April 2025)

Xubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 April 2020, end of life April 2025)

Lubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 April 2020, end of life April 2025)

Fedora Workstation 32 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.6 (Release 28 April 2020, end of life 2021)

Fedora Server 32 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.6 (Release 28 April 2020, end of life 2021)

Haiku (BeOS) R1/beta 2 (DVD) sha256sum (Release 9 June 2020)

Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 27 June 2020, end of life April 2025)

Linux Mint 20 MATE LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 27 June 2020, end of life April 2025)

2021 to this day

Debian 11 (It is one of my instances of 4 Debian installed) and Debian 12 of 3 instances in current use in my NUC.

 

Now I have MX Linux, 25.3-Netrunner and two Debian instances.

PCLinux and Cutefish Linux

What is PCLinuxOS?

PCLinuxOS is a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for x86_64 desktops or laptops.

PCLinuxOS is distributed as a LiveCD/DVD/USB ISO image, and can also be installed to your computer. The LiveCD/DVD/USB mode lets you try PCLInuxOS without making any changes to your computer. If you like it, you can install the operating system to your hard drive. Locally installed versions of PCLinuxOS utilize the Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic, a GUI frontend to APT for easy software installation. PCLinuxOS has over 12,000 rpm software packages available from our software repository.

PCLinuxOS has a script called mylivecd, which allows the user to take a ‘snapshot’ of their current hard drive installation (all settings, applications, documents, etc.) and compress it into an ISO CD/DVD/USB image. This allows easy backup of a user’s data and also makes it easy to create your own custom liveCD/DVD/USB.

PCLinuxOS has additional support for over 85 language through our simple Addlocale interface.

PCLinuxOS is safe and secure. You never have to worry about viruses, adware, malware or trojans infecting your computer with PCLinuxOS.

The PCLinuxOS distribution was founded October 24, 2003 by Bill Reynolds aka Texstar and headquarters are located in Houston, TX USA.

What can I do with PCLinuxOS?

Everything you do with that other OS you can do with PCLinuxOS.

Internet tools : PCLinuxOS comes with a complete internet suite for surfing the net, sending and receiving email, instant messaging , blogging , tweeting and watching online video.

Photos: Edit photographs, upload and mange your photo collections with GIMP and Picasa software applications.

Music and Video: Listen, organize and stream mp3 music from your desktop. Sync your mp3 player with your music collection. Listen to streaming internet radio. Watch Youtube videos. Watch TV shows and movies online as well as DVDs. Design DVD slide shows and more. PCLinuxOS is a full multimedia operating system.

Productivity: LibreOffice allows you to edit documents, create presentations, work on spreadsheets, graphics and is available in many languages. Installation is easy through our LibreOffice Manager utility.

Where can I get a copy of PCLinuxOS?

Let me dish out Cutefish Linux to begin with.

It looks attractive but lacks functionality including WiFi connectivity.

There are enough bloated up Linux distributions already available what one is going to achieve by bringing another NEW Desktop Environment?

For me functionality is the base

Is somebody going to use it as a Daily Driver?

Lot of Linux distributions have gone dormant and I have no objections for them to be revived (they lost the user base and they could not keep their community intact). 

In additions, due to squabbling of some developers on trivial things, may have disrupted their developer energy. 

This should not happen in TQM style.

In Quality Management philosophy what matters is not an individual but the team.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Philosophy

Bill  Reynolds

 Now I come to PCLinux my heart throb that went into hibernation when Bill  Reynolds who was known as the Texstar (not the Cathedral and Bazaar guy) who left PCLinux Project when 64 bit version came to the market in 10 April, 2013. 

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a guy better known as "Texstar".

Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American Software Developer, open source software advocate and the author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. 

He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Raymond was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957 and lived in Venezuela as a child. His family moved to Pennsylvania in 1971. He developed cerebral palsy at birth; his weakened physical condition motivated him to go into computing.

Raymond began his programming career writing proprietary software, between 1980 and 1985. In 1990, noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983, he adopted it, but not without criticism.

Now I come to PCLinux my heart throb that went into hibernation when Textstar gave up.

Eric Steven Raymond (ESR), he is not the Texstar but the Cathedral and Bazaar and the open source activist with a lot of political baggage in him.

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a guy better known as "Texstar".

When he went Everything Collapsed and I gave up on PCLinux and moved to Debian where I remain to this day.

A good leader always leave behind a good team with capable hands.

In the corporate sector, even if the product is bad, like Microsoft Windows, the guys and girls hang on to the chips and a lot of money is exchanged, in between. 

They thrive on advertisements and Glossy appearance.

The Chines DeepIn is very glossy but a very poor product. 

This is what CuteFish guys and girls should consider. DeepIn guys survive due to state sponsorship and with the Windows Outage Russia and China survived. Russian Star Linux is not a good product.

Can the Cutefish guys and girls do the same when a catastrophe ensues?

That is my Big question.

Coming back to PCLinux;

It seems like it is revived in Turkey and Brazil.

KDE desktop seems neat and not bloated like Plasma but it could not configure our WiFi.

It's graphical Installer which is similar to Mandrake (now defunct) was pretty impressive then and the new one is even better.

They were bit late and I have chosen Netrunner as my second choice to Gnome which seamlessly integrates with Gnome.

Besides it supports Synaptic Package Manager and Gdebian Installer.

What else do I need?

Neptune OS is another KDE desktop which is attractive but it could not (as stated by them) make a persistent volume. 

That put me off after 24 hour trial.

It looks like I am reaching 300,000 hits on this blog site of which more than 100,000 hits are of my own hits.

My target was to reach 100,000 without any AD Money from Google.

I have achieved it but I keep a very close eye on forward march of Linux.

If I have revived interest in Linux lately (target is 10% of all PC users, currently 3%) and all my criticisms are constructive and not destructive.

Long Live Linux.

 

Lindows OS CD

Lindows OS CD

I have downloaded Lindows OS from Archive Linux site and run it on Box Utility.

After Puppy Linux my first entry to Installing Linux on 32 bit computer was Lindows.

It was very refreshing memory to my Linux entry.

But heart throb was Mandrake Linux which I tested on Box and then I went Foresight Linux which was my last 32 bit entry of Redhat base. I could not get an old copy of Suse Linux to download and test. Fortunately Bliss Os did not boot on my NUC. I hate all Goggle Android and Their Studio OS.

 I have stated that elsewhere in this blog site.

But Chimera OS is my latest discovery.

That is to play games only second to Batocera. 

Google has left a  copy for Debian but it crashed on installing.

That is the acid test for Android OS. Do not try it. 

 

LindowsOS
Web site: lindows.com (not active)
Origin: USA
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: KDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia:
Media: Install CD
The last version | Released: 4.0.302 | June 22, 2003

LindowsOS (later: Linspire) – a commercial operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux by Linspire, Inc. It was focused on ease-of-use and targeting home computer users.

It used the WINE API to run Microsoft Windows applications. 

The WINE API was later dropped, as LindowsOS used a program called “Click’N’Run” (CNR). CNR is similar to Synaptic used to download apps with the APT tool.

Lindows was shipped with a customized KDE 3.x desktop, custom applications borderline cloning the Apple iLife suite, and a primitive “app store,” it was intended to be easy to use and fully functional out of the box.

In 2001, a company called Lindows Inc. created a new Linux Operating System.
The project founder is Michael Robertson.

Releases:
– 0.91 Sneak Preview 2 April 5,2002
– 1.1.1 June 21, 2002
– 2.1.40 October 24, 2002
– 3.0.0 November 15, 2002
– 4.0.302 June 22, 2003

Puppy Linux, My Favourite

Puppy Linux, My Favourite

1. Puppy has the best Light Weight functional desktop.

2. Besides it fits in a USB and is portable.

3. When I travel I carry it in my trouser pocket to boot and test drive hardware before buying. I did not bring any to Australia but downloaded two versions the moment I settled down.  They are now in 2 USBs.

4. It has many versions.

I have at least 10 stored in my hard disk.

A USB with a 64 GB capacity can carry all the currently available images.

It went to hibernation.

5. Easy OS is beautiful.

6. It originated from Australia.

7. Barry Kauler is a dog lover.

8. It can be installed in many ways and PUPfile is only one variety.

9. Two events hindered its development number one is transfer of technology from 32 bits to 64 bits.

10. The corona virus event laid off many non profit organisations and their viability in question.

Easy OS-Puppy Linux

I just downloaded Easy OS, a Puppy Linux derivative and installed it to a USB stick using Image writer.

Booted it.

Configured the Wireless Network.

Signed in with Gmail to my blog post.

Finished posting this piece in 5 minutes while experimenting with Easy Ss. This was after I made a scathy comment in www.distrowatch.com on Sparky Linux which comes from Poland. Using the new version of Sparky Linux is a waste of time.

Thank you to all Puppy Linux Developers.

I have downloaded all active Puppy Linux distributions in less than 24 hours by torrent. I am Puppy Linux Lover and I am in Australia currently. Barry Kauler of Australia developed Puppy Linux, first.

It is cool, it has a small footprint and a classic Linux Utility and using the word distribution to it, is a misnomer. Only Knoppix can beat it on the number of utilities bundled up in one instant of Puppy Linux but Knoppix is almost dormant from 2020. Gnoppix is a welcome addition but cannot configure our WiFi.

Easy OS has followings.

1. Container Folder

2. Data Folder

3. File Folder

4. Release Folder

5. sfs Folder

6. Initrd

7. vmlinux

Squash File

SquashFs

SquashFs was the Linux term for compression when USB sticks were only 512MB capacity.SquashFsopens up and expand in a Live Session.

I used a 512MB stick for my first Puppy Linux.

Squash File is a one long text file including boot instructions of legacy boot time.

SquashFs can bypass the BIOS at boot time and that is its versatility.

I had to make a comment about Puppy Linux to a YouTube presentation by a guy on Windows session making mickey out of Puppy Linux giving almost half an our session to educate how to install Puppy Linux on Windows. I was annoyed and said or made a comment, to the effect, all one need is a USB stick and Puppy Image downloaded to a Linux Distribution and click the Image and by default the Image Writer is activated to install Puppy Linux on a USB stick.

No hassle at all.

Thereafter, one can carry it in one’s trouser pocket.

I did not see him again, in YouTube.

Puppy even installs Jitisi, which I had some trouble in installing in Debian Gnome probably due to fragmentation of the libraries.

EasyOS-6.0.4 which is the latest Image (I erased the USB stick that had 6.0.2) has done a great job.      One has an option to update to the latest version, if the current version is old.

It has Vivaldi browser which one has to download. By the way, its default browser is Chromium and a Chromium Container which describes all the abilities and functionality of EasyOS. It has both AppImage Installer and Flatpak Installer.

Problem for me is, it has no AbiWord but has both LibreOffice and OnlyOffice.

One cannot download applications what is not listed in their repository.

It has KODI, OBS and Kdenlive and what more on needs?

80% of what I have in Debian Gnome is available with Easy OS on a 15GB Stick. It is a persistent image.

Minimum USB stick one finds in Australia, nowadays is 32GB.

It has VLC, MPV and Audacity and many more for one to download.

Puppy Linux is my Favourite!

Neptune Linux and KDE Desktop

Neptune Linux is a Linux distribution with KDE Desktop.

I used it during its 32 bit version.

 It pretty good but not as feature rich as Netnunner Linux.

Puppy, Lupu, Quirky and Wary

 Puppy, Lupu, Quirky and  Wary

I have a very short comment on Vanilla Puppy Linux. It has sacrificed the utility value of Linux for the glossy appearance.

That is a fundamental mistake.

It cannot configure the Wireless Internet.

Any Linux distribution that cannot configure Wireless Networking is not worth testing.

My advice for them is to work on the first 512MB of the distribution for basic utilities so that it can be booted from a 1GB stick (hard to find) and the rest can be downloaded from the home page of the distribution.

The glossy appearance can be worked out later. 

It is like a chocolate, the basic ingredients are chocolates, sugar, milk and salt.

Rest is old wrapping outside.

Once the original Linux Chocolate is good, the taste and flavour can be added on (not padded on).

This is the problem with Apple Mac and Windows, they have one flavour and one is stuck with it. 

Linux has more than 300 flavours and www,distrowatch.com highlight 100 of them.

By the way, chocolate has over 330 chemical ingredients.

Puppy Linux Collectionn

Puppy Linux Collection 

I found a Puppy Collections in an Archive and downloaded a few of my favorites in the past.

FatPup

Lupu

Wary

Topup

Wolf and a many I forget the names.

Using Linux MultiSystem I wrote them into 8GB USB.

FatPup included, only 5 pf them are 64 bits and bootable. 

All the others of 32 bits are not bootable.

But I find a guy with a 32 bit computer not working. 

I can boot one of these images and see the problem with the hardware including graphic card functionality and install Puppy Linux in those hardware.

I could not write sfs file of EasyPup since it is an image not an Iso file. 

However it is a persistent image and I have it in a separate USB. It is pretty impressive for a guy who started Linux experience with Puppy Linux.

 

 

Balena Etcher

Balena Etcher

This is a Debian Utility, I found accidentally and can Flash or Copy a File or Drive into another drive.

I am currently copying USB with multiple Puppy Linux, installed Using Linux MutSystem USB utility.

It takes 1.5GB of the RAM and at least 30% of the CPU.

I want to see whether it would boot.

It takes a little longer time. 

Took at least 20 minutes to write 4.8GB. 

I do not think I use this method to copy a file in Linux.

As for Linux Image I would write  another copy using Image writer.

There is a MultSystem Copy utility in Linux,

I am going to write to my hard disk now.

Gnoppix

I am currently downloading the latest Gnoppix, its older version did not configure the WiFi.

It is based on Debian to activate the now defunct Knoppix which was my heart throb. However, Knoppix 9.1 does not boot on my NUC, but unlike Gnoppix it has tons of applications.

The new version of Gnoppix with 4.6GB could not configure the WiFi even though it shows both Ethernet and WiFi (not visible to configure).

It has Tor utility but without WiFi configuration, I cannot test their usefulness.

I think I go for Kodachai instead,

 

Multitasking in Linux and Stacer

Multitasking in Linux and Stacer 

I was running Gnoppix on Box utility and downloading three images including Kodhachi (which I have never used) and OpenBox Linux (never heard about it) and browsing the web and I was using 50% of the CPU and 4G RAM (50%).

But my home folder has only 2GB left. 

Besides, all these were done under 15 minutes and may be 10 minutes, I did not time it exactly.

Batocera Game Linux

 Batocera Game Linux

Batocera Game Linux I have not tested, for about a year.

New image is 9.1GB when extracted. Its img.gz is 3.3GB. 

Make sure the download folder has at least 10GB to extract it. 

I have tried only the NUC image but it has many images to suit almost all the game consoles.

Try direct download and torrent files do not work.

Gnome on Top of KDE Desktop of Netrunner

I usually run other desktop distributions on top of Gnome but for a change I tried Gnome on top of KDE.

Just installed Gnome base on top of the KDE.

It mixture went into a real frenzy and after two boot ups it went into Debian 11and Plasma desktop which I could choose by clicking the tiny icon on the right hand side of the desktop.

I usually have Debian 11 as a separate installation in Ceylon but in Australia with only 320GB SATA, I did not fancy that ploy.

By accident I have installed Gnome 11 on top of KDE of Netrunner. 

Who says, I do not make mistakes but a fortunate and unexpected one. I am not going to erase it since it has ton of KDE utilities including Calligra.

Few additions to my book on Linux Essentials and when clicking Synaptic packages. I would look for the version details in future.

I am going to sleep now.

I cannot get Batocera downloaded by Linux torrent.

I am going to try direct downloads. 

Yes direct download for my NUC is working OK.

It is only 3.1GB.

That is enough for the last 48 hours.

VanillaDPup and Vanilla OS

Vanilla DPUP is an excellent Puppy Derivative which has an excellent collection of Linux utilities, whereas, Vanilla OS is a useless, distribution based on Debian which has no software to run on first Live Boot. 

If I remember right it could not configure WiFI when, I tested it about 9 months ago. Its was released in 2023 and I deleted the ISO Image.

It is immutable release and not flexible, defeating the very objectives of Linux and Free Software. 

I lost interest in it and the reason I post this now is due to a YouTube presentation, I saw today.

It is trying to entice developers, making  mint out of hard working developers.

My opinion is do not try it at all and waste your valuable time.

If you do not believe me run both Puppy and Vanilla OS on Box utility and see the difference ,yourself.

Pretty obvious Puppy Linux comes on top.

NetRunner 23-64bit-KDE Plasma

 I found a way to add applications to be added to the KDE Desktop.

All what I did was to use Synaptic and install Gnome Box and and few of my favorite Gnome applications. Then I brought those icons to the desktop.

It worked, but some limitations. I could add only 18 application items with another 3 which are KDE specific I got 21 icons sitting on the left side.

The middle is reserved for KDE applications already installed in an alphabetical order. 

On the right hand side, instead of the original list I got applications categorized like Office, games, etc.

For the time being that is good enough for me. 

To my surprise. Gnome took over the KDE desktop and laid a new desktop mixing both KDE and Gnome utilities. I am more than happy with the outcome.

I finally got the KDE Desktop to my liking and it is not heavy like Plasma desktop, still uses lot of my RAM.

I got Stacer installed and it says. KDE is using at least 3GB of RAM at rest. that is 35% of my RAM doing nothing at all. 

Gnome rarely use more than 1GB RAM even when I am working.

This is why, I gave up KDE long time ago. I do lot of thing in the background, downloading copying ISO files to NTFS partition and many more.

Gnome is not intrusive.

I could not get my favorite applications to the desktop. 

That is the down side!

It is whole new experience and worth it. It has 373 new updates and was bit slow to update.

Having NOT used KDE for long time, it was somewhat of a big ask for me to change my way of using tany desktop. Instead of the root user, getting a standard user installed was bit clumsy. I had to click the log in icon to find the new user and it was not listed.

There is no standard package Installer for KDE applications. I had to search for the applications, in some sort of a file manager and thankfully organized in an alphabetical order. No query for dependencies but goes on installing all applications at the same time not, one application at a time.

Bit clumsy.

Anyway, it is there, if I get fed up with Gnome.

NetRunner 23-64bit-KDE Plasma

Netrunner is one of the best KDE Desktops with a modern look.

Nobody seems to have noticed it and it has tons of KDE applications.

It gives pleasing desktop appearance and I have decided to install it on top of one of my Debian instances, simply because it supports Synaptic Package Manager.

That is an accolade by itself.

What it means is I can test Gnome applications on top of KDE Desktop.

All these day, I have been testing KDE applications on top of Gnome.

I am having best of two Desktop Worlds.

Using Synaptic, I installed Variety desktop effects to make the rigid KDE desktop looks  dynamic to the user being.

I have no hesitation of recommending it.

The right hand side of the desktop looks like one's cellphone application. That is beautiful.

Well I did not know how to Install new application.

When I clicked Update it opened a window panel and within it I found a graphical set up.

I installed all the missing stuff, Focus writer, Manuskript, and Scribus.

My View about ARCH Linux and its Derivatives

Honestly speaking, my advice for a newbie to Linux is for he or she to use Puppy Linux to begin with Never Try ARCH or it derivatives.

My View about ARCH Linux and its Derivatives has not changed at all.

This is the latest testing.

I forgot to mention anything about Arch Linux in my book of Linux essentials. 

Hence, I decided to check few of its derivatives.

Except for Majaro Linux, which is a pretty good distributions (except when installing additional applications) one should not try any other Arch derivatives.

I just mounted Arcolinux on a USB stick and tried  to have a simple user experience. Except for Gparted it had nothing, not even a simple browser. At least they could have used now dysfunctional Midori browser.

It configured the WiFi but what the use of Internet without a browser included in the distribution.

Image size is 2.7GB

I am going to try Storm Linux which is 3.5GB.

Storm Linux is pretty good.

It did configure WiFi.

It has Chromium browser.

It has VLC and Pulse Audio.

In that sense it is at least user friendly.

It has Note,  Htop and Vim but no office or AbiWord.

Its installer is Calamara.

It is Xfc based and themes are very dark for me.

Endeavor OS is on the USB.

Image size is 2.7GB.

I just tested it. 

Endeavor OS is pretty good and it is KDE based and has a pleasing desktop.

WiFi is smooth.

It has Firefox, which is my favorite browser.

It has Calamara installer, offline desktop is KDE but online installation lets one choose a different desktop.

Image size is 2.7GB

On the whole it is almost like Manjaro Linux.

It has Spectacle, the screenshot capture utility. 

On the whole Arch has come a long way and some developers are listening to the user comments.

Bluestar Linux when I tested it, last time, it had issues with WiFi connectivity but this time WiFi configuration was OK but I had to fiddle, a bit.

I thought Blustar Linux is going to come on top but I have some reservations.

Its image size is 4.6GB.

I have downloaded it direct from the SourceForge.

Linux tracker image is slightly older but almost the same.

This what it says about itself.

Bluestar Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution, built with an understanding that people want and need a solid Operating System that provides a breadth of functionality and ease of use without sacrificing aesthetics. Bluestar is offered in three edtions - desktop, deskpro and developer - each tailored to address the needs of a variety of Linux users. Bluestar can be installed permanently as a robust and fully configurable operating system on a laptop or desktop system, or it can be run effectively as a live installer and supports the addition of persistent storage for those who choose not to perform a permanent installation.

A Bluestar Linux software repository is also maintained in order to provide additional tools and applications when needed or requested.

Most of the of the above, I could not accomplish on a live session.

Having taken the password for the WiFi it did not mount Firefox.

Since it was heavy, I tried to log out and log in.

That where the problem started. 

It asked for a password for the user.

I tried the usual.

live

root

user

without a password, press enter

I tells me I have tried, three times and it Froze.

I am not going to try it again, certainly not Install it.

The installer is Clamara.

My advice is once one gets the hand of Linux after using Puppy Linux on OpenBox, Xfc or similar desktop, GO STRAIFGT to Debian Linux.

I prefer Gnome but it has Cinnamon, Mate, and many more.

Try using Live DVD and there is DVD1 which gives all most all the Desktop varities one can choose at the time of installation.

This my last adventure and i am going back to finish my book Linux Esentials. 

It has lot of stuff. 

I usulay finish a book in a few days but this book took the longest time.

Puppy Linux and EasyOS-6.0.4

Puppy Linux and Easy-6.0.4

By the way, this is posted with Puppy Easy OS on Live Session.

It took a little time for me to get the Firefox downloaded and running.

This is a comment, I want to make here, since YouTube Guy who probably comes from Windows background was making Micky out of Puppy and giving almost half an our session, how to install Puppy Linux on Windows. 

I was annoyed and said or made a comment, to the effect, all one need is a USB stick and Puppy Image downloaded to a Linux Distribution and click the Image and Image Writer is thereby activated for install on a USB stick.

No hassle at all!

Thereafter, one can carry it in the trouser pocket.

I did not see him again, in YouTube.

Puppy even installs Jitisi, which I had some trouble in installing in Debian Gnome probably due to fragmentation of the libraries. 

EasyOS-6.0.4 which is the latest Image (I erased the USB stick that had 6.0.2) has done a great job.

One has an option to update to the latest version, if the current version is old.

It has Vivaldi browser which one has to download.

By the way, its default browser is Chromium and It has a chromium container which describes all the activities of EasyOS.

It has both AppImage Installer and Flatpak Installer.

Problem for me is, it has no AbiWord but has both LibreOffice and OnlyOffice. 

One cannot download what is not in their repository.

It has KODI, OBS studio and Kdenlive and what more on needs.

80% of what I have in Debian Gnome is available with EasyOS on a 15GB Stick.

Minimum USB stick one finds in Australia, nowadays is 32GB.

It has VLC, MPV and Audacity and many more for one to download.

Docking Station of Gnome

Docking Station of Gnome

Docky A full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker. Docky is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop and features, no nonsense approach to configuration and usage. Docky provides an intuitive application launcher, running application management, and various "docklets" including a CPU monitor, weather report and clock. It is similar to other docks such as AWN and cairo-dock. Applications can integrate with Docky to add extra items to their context menus or modify their icons to display more information.

Docky is derived from the GNOME Do "docky" interface. Docky is a theme for GNOME Do that behaves much like the Mac OS X dock. Unlike GNOME Do's traditional interface, Docky can be set to one of three modes for hiding:

None - Docky is always visible.

Autohide - Docky is normally hidden and appears when the mouse pointer reaches Docky's unseen edge at the lower/upper edge of the screen.

Intellihide - Docky hides if it overlaps any window in the active window group, but it can still be brought up with the mouse pointer. Standard Do functionality is still present within Docky and the Do hot-key will still produce the expected behaviour. Docky 2 is a separate application from GNOME Do.

Emmabantus in the earlier versions had an intuitive docking station at the bottom of the desktop and the applications were arranged according to the tasks they performed. However, there was poor standardisation of the menus and items and it started fragmenting over time with poor maintenance. The Cairo Dock seems to be the base and it can be downloaded using Synaptic Package Manager.

With Debian Gnome the panels are bigger and located on the right side, instead on the bottom in Emmabantus and appear to clutter the desktop and one cannot launch an application from these panels.

However, Gnome has its own way of addressing this issue with a few essential items, on the bottom of the desktop. One can add or delete any of the applications that are stationed below on the desktop without any panel restriction.

If the number of the items are few on the desktop each item of  the panel member appears big and as and when the number of applications are added each item becomes smaller and smaller to fit the horizontal breath of the monitor. I have added 30 odd items and that gives a pleasing or eye catching appearance.

All the other items are arranged with big icons, 32 for each page and I have seven pages in total which means over 220 items. Most of them are little games and I can drag and drop essential item to page one or  non essential game items to page seven. The Gnome work on this is much more visually appealing than MacOS and I love it.

Web Browsers

 I have 10 browsers installed but my default is Firefox (nearly 600MB install as big as LibreOffice, all due various languages) and I really like KDE Falkon

Graphical Browsers

   1. Firefox - Open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation

2. Chromium - Open source web browser used as a base Google Chrome

3. Konqueror - The default web browser under KDE

4. Epiphany- GNOME Web - (epiphany-browser package) Simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users

5. surf - Simple web browser by suckless

6. TorBrowser - Firefox-based Web browser aimed at defending against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

7. Falkon - (formerly qupzilla) Lightweight web browser based on Chromium

8. midori - Fast, lightweight graphical web browser (available in bullseye and buster) not available in latest kernels.

9. qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on ?PyQt5

10. luakit - Fast and small web browser extensible by Lua

Console

Web browsers that can be used in a terminal emulator environment.

1. edbrowse - Line oriented text-mode editor & browser. Supports HTTP, FTP, scripts, editor, mail client.

2. elinks - Advanced text-mode WWW browser

3. links - Web browser running in text mode

4. links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

6. lynx - Classic text-mode web browser with support for Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP protocols

7. w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support

Third Party Browsers

The following web browsers in are not in the Debian repositories, and thus require the use of third party repositories to install them on Debian

Free browsers

1. Brave

ungoogled-chromium

Non-Free browsers

2. Opera

Inactive projects

3. conkeror

4. netsurf-gtk

5. uzbl

2 Pane or 4 Pane View and FileLight

By the way, I left 3  1GB external hard drives in Ceylon, all my work of over two decades. 

They were meant to be but in my coffin, so that when mankind destroys this world (NATO is the biggest WAR Monger) in a stroke of madness and hate, in a future date an Alien Species would discover there was a doctor guy who was mad about Linux. 

The reason being, guys at the airport in Ceylon and Australia would have thought, I was a CIA guy snooping and pulled out all my luggage and made my holiday travel a certain misery.

I do not have all my files, not in the cloud (in other words, literally in a CIA folder) but in my head.

2 Pane or 4 Pane View

If one has a tiny hard disk (320GB) with over 22 partitions and 4 of the same instances of the Debian Gnome distribution installed, it is nice to have an overview in NOT one Pane but 2 or 4 panes.

Gnome commander is in 2 Panes and give me an overview of the entire hard disk. But unless I have command line tesxts I cannot open any of them.

Whereas 4 Pane give me all the information including cash, configuration and details.

1. First Pane give me my /home/bono 

it goes like

.cash

.config

Desktop Folder

Documents Folder

Downloads Folder 

2. The Pane 2 gives me 

bash history

Emac history 

My profile 

3. Pane 43

I thinks gives the active file used like Firefox and SNAP

4. Pane 4

If I go to the  pane 4, it tells me I have Brave installed.

 

FileLight

By the way, Filelight is a KDE utility which lets me scan

1. Folder

2. Home Folder

3. Root Folder

inner most center /usr/ 21.2GB in the center (out of 25GB)

1st circle /usr/share with all the libraies 

2nd circle /usr/share and /usr/lib/

3rd circle gives me how much memory is taken by each application and there are 4th and 5th circles that give me tiny information, I never bother about all my life.

By the way, all files are big and little test files and arranging them in folder makes bird's eye view of the file system.

 

Calibre E-book Reader and E-Book Editor

Calibre E-book Reader and E-Book Editor

I have got altogether 4 instances of Debian Gnome in my NUC with 320GB hard disk.

In one of the Gnome instances;

I have got 630,000 odd files of 12.5GB capacity in my root folder of 15GB but my home folder has only 2.0GB of storage with 12.5GB remaining to download any ISO image which I want to test.

What matters is the working /home folder!

I have installed tons of applications including Statistics and Databases, just to test them before finishing my book on "Linux Essentials".

This is what makes Linux file hierarchy and functionality excellent which neither Microsoft Widows and Apple Mac could not match in my life time.

I can safely say these guys who use these proprietary software and hardware are either fabulously rich or stupid to go with their opulence / abundance.

My goal before my demise is to make Linux PC usage to become 10%. 

It is a big ask.

In other words, there is one clever guy among, nine other not so clever guys.

This web site will function long after my demise and one could peruse here, over 2500 entries. 

Only about 30 guys visit this site daily and I have blocked all Google Advertisements and I have no commercial interests and after over 25 years, I have not received a cent from Google.

This site was named Linux 100 to give a running commentary of all Old and New Linux distributions.

Unlike the www.distrowatch.com which is geared to make an income, usually hit rates but "NOT THE REAL USERS" my contributions are always FREE.

I am Going to ditch Google before my demise and I am probing alternative avenues.

Coming back to Callibre which comes from KDE Desktop is a very useful utility which I downloaded last as my Linux application. One can install on Gnome desktop using SNAP.

I am writer and working on 5 books currently, only using Linux utilities to write and I would like to review my own books using Callibre. 

It also has a E-book viewer and E-book editor.

One is at his or her own liberty to download and test them.

Bunsen Lab Linux

I am curently downloading Bunsen Lab latest version to test Live.

It is 1.7GB.

Bunsen Lab Linux

This is to report that, I saw a wrong comment on a YouTube presentation by a woman who has no understanding of Linux, saying Bunsen Lab cannot configure WiFi.

This comment was wrong, I am live here, from Bunsen Lab on a USB and it effortlessly configured WiFi and I am posting this to prove it is Live from a Bunsen Lab Distribution.

Long long time ago, I used Crunch Bang Linux and its versatility is a minimalist form but was a good workhorse, then.

Mind you Internet was horrible then, in Ceylon.

I am posting this from Australia.

Just Like in Snal Linux it has all the keyboard or Super key commands on the right hand side of the desktop.

The browser, the Firefox is smooth and fast is on the top right hand corner.

It is only 1.8GB. 

Software installer is Synaptic Package Manager, which is versatile by itself.

It has Dropbox, Dilo and Chromium available for install and I did not try them on a Live session.

Yes, I tried Dilo and Abiword and it installed both of them briskly.

I have no hesitation to recommend it, if one is looking for minimalist distribution as opposed to KDE/Plasma.

I do not use Plasma at all but Gnome is my basic.

Good work, guys and girls of Bunsen Lab

BIG Thank YOU.

CrunchBang was a Debian GNU/Linux based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. 

Using the nimble Openbox Window Manager, it is highly customisable and provided a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance.

Development of CrunchBang has ended, but it inspired the creation of some excellent spin-off projects by community members.

    CrunchBang++
    Bunsen Labs